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Changing icon of XP drive, NTFS partition.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Now I've read this tutorial and tried to follow it, but I just don't understand some parts.
Replacing the XP Partition's icon
If you use a NTFS file system, you will not be able to modify the XP Partition's icon by the "Get Info" procedure. Follow this instructions to see how you can change your XP Partition's icon
1.- Format a USB stick with a FAT file system (you can use any volume really, but it needs to be FAT).
2.- In Mac OS X, set a custom volume icon using the Finder's "More info" window or any tool of your choice.
3.- Open a Terminal window, enter
cd /Volumes
ls -la
You'll see a file listed that has the same name as the FAT volume, but with a "._" prepended. For example, "._USBSTICK".
4.-Copy that file to the equivalent name for the Windows XP NTFS partition by typing in the termina:l
cp ._USBSTICK ._WinXP
5.- Transfer the ".VolumeIcon.icns" file created on the FAT file system to the root of the NTFS partition, using Windows.
6.- Open a Command Prompt and Enter in "attrib +H +S .VolumeIcon.icns" from the root of your NTFS partition. This will make the file a Hidden, System file, which hides it from curious passers by and even if you have the show hidden and systems files it will not show up in your NTFS partition.
Congratulations! Now your XP partition has a new icon
Can anyone provide a more detailed step by step tutorial, for complete idiots? i.e. click this here, type this.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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What part of it don't you understand? Those directions are pretty straight forward, I did it in 5 mins.
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Sieb
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(2Ghz, 2GB, 100Gig, week 21)
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Just find an icon you like, change it's name to .VolumeIcon.icns and drop it in the root of your windows drive, what don't you understand?
There's no need for the USB stick part, that's just over complicating things. Just download the icon off the web straight into windows, or upload it to one of many storage sites on the web and re-download.
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My Exchange server icon is the old style multi-colored Apple icon...
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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just an FYI, but this procedure doesn't change the Windows Drive's icon on the bootloader screen itself, only within OS X.
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